beefed-up

• “The NDP champions higher corporate taxes, beefed-up pension benefits and increased health-care spending.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Small Party Gains Clout in Canada

• “The beefed-up metrics are similar to the Bush-era quarterly evaluations for Iraq and Afghanistan currently used by the Pentagon to report security progress to Congress.”

  Administration sets benchmarks to measure Afghanistan progress

• “By dumping the Bush plan he lowers the Russian's angst, and continues to back a strong European defense posture using existing systems that are beefed-up.”

  Obama scraps Bush-era missile defense for new plan

• “This campaign of recurring air strikes and demonstrations continued for more than a decade.31 To support this open-ended quasi-war, beefed-up U.S. military contingents remained in the region, operating out of a network of bases in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey, and elsewhere.”

  Simon & Schuster: Between War and Peace

• “And they have a plan for a beefed-up Medicare payments commission that, in theory, should allow reimbursement rates to be made in a more technically sound manner.”

  Matthew Yglesias » House GOP Medicare Elimination Plan Puts Conservatives in a Pickle

• “The carrier planned a public relations campaign highlighting more spacious seats, improved reading lights and beefed-up entertainment systems with upgraded screens and expanded video options.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Singapore Air Postpones New Tokyo A380 route

• “Providing space and freedom for the prince and his friends would cost British taxpayers in excess of $2.5 million—most of that spent on installing bulletproof windows, panic rooms, new security cameras and surveillance devices, and of course a beefed-up force of armed guards stationed in a separate building right next door.”

  Simon & Schuster: William and Kate

• “In the past, FAA officials also have publicly pledged to require beefed-up training for pilots.”

  The Wall Street Journal: FAA to Unveil Medical Helicopter Safety Proposals

• “James Dudley says his beefed-up team of more than 200 officers—complemented by an undisclosed number of new private security officers—will strictly enforce a ban on floats, drinking and unregistered participants by using fences along the racecourse and checkpoints.”

  The Wall Street Journal: San Francisco's New Race Rules: Run Naked, Not Drunk

• “Though Mr. Asmussen didn't get the economics portfolio, he scored a beefed-up post as head of the ECB's international division, giving him a central role in crisis talks.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A New Generation Tackles the Euro Crisis

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